toreador
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Does the Bible scare anyone else here sometimes?
by missy04 inmaybe i'm just messed up, but i get really freaked out sometimes.
i can't understand the bible,.....in some places it seems like it's saying all you have to do is one or two things, then it seems like it's saying you have to do different things to be saved.... so many different people and religions have so many different takes on the bible.
i don't know which to beleive, and it scares me that if i beleived the wrong thing that i could go to hell, or just go to sleep forever as the witnesses say.
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THERE IS ONLY ONE SIN
by Terry inoscar wilde said, "there is no sin except stupidity".. however, i heard a better one the other day that got me thinking.. i wish i could remember who said it.. it went something like this.
there is only one sin and that is "theft".. all else is a variation.. 1.if you murder a man you steal all he has and all he is ever going to have.
2.when you lie you steal another person's right to hear and know the truth.. 3.when you fail to honor parents or god you steal from them the respect due them for giving you life and for enabling you to flourish.. you get the idea.. would you agree that there is only one sin: theft?.
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toreador
If somebody steals/withholds from you first, is it stealing if you withhold the same thing from them which they stole from you?
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I imagine it could be in most cases. Unless it was sex. Tor
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Freedom to Choose God
by UnDisfellowshipped income to the wedding.
' for i say to you that god is able to raise up children to abraham from these stones.
' for i say to you that god is able to raise up children to abraham from these stones.
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toreador
Wow, I didnt realize this thread was going on yet. I have a lot of reading to do.
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NWT Scholars
by homme perdu in.
the book, reasoning from the scriptures does not inform the reader on who are the nwt scholars nor their education background.
could someone provide some information concerning the nwt scholars?
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toreador
I dont think Scholar is really serious. Noone could be that brazenly stupid so I think some of his jesting must be tongue in cheek. I hope.
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In Watchtower World---What Do You Think The Society Thinks of JWD???
by minimus indo you think they "know" us?
do you think the service department looks here to find out how to write the next watchtower??
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toreador
Well, I'll be chuffed. did I use that correctly?
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NWT Scholars
by homme perdu in.
the book, reasoning from the scriptures does not inform the reader on who are the nwt scholars nor their education background.
could someone provide some information concerning the nwt scholars?
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toreador
LOL Scholar
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Is God a Flip-Flopper?
by Amazing1914 ini have never been able to find a satisfactory answer to these two verses from the bible:exodus 34:7: keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.. .
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24:16: the fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.. .
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toreador
Excellent questions. I have pondered these several times and asked several people with no good answers.
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My Mother's Being Announced in November As OFF The Pioneer List
by minimus inafter 40 years of serving as a regular pioneer and being on the infirm list, the circuit overseer, the po and another elder told her today in a 30 min.
conversation she was going to be announced as no longer pioneering.
the co mostly talked about me, my wife and daughter.
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toreador
I find it so hard to believe that they do this kind of thing over and over again with no thought of how it may hurt others. It happened in our case as well with one of our family members. How they claim to have love and do this is beyond that me. I cant believe more dont wake up to the fact that there is no real love there.
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Franz - Schnell
by core inmany times on this board people post to say a factor in their leaving the wt was having read ray franz book(s) - many years ago william schnell published a book - 30 years a watchtower slave - have never seen this book but was wondering - has anyone read it ?
was it as effective as crisis of conscience in exposing the myth of "the truth"?
- did it have an imact when it was publised?
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toreador
I believe that the trade paperback that's now in print is also unabridged.
Thanks for the reply. I didnt realize that it was still being printed until just recently.
Tor
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Franz - Schnell
by core inmany times on this board people post to say a factor in their leaving the wt was having read ray franz book(s) - many years ago william schnell published a book - 30 years a watchtower slave - have never seen this book but was wondering - has anyone read it ?
was it as effective as crisis of conscience in exposing the myth of "the truth"?
- did it have an imact when it was publised?
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toreador
I have a Ninth printing, September 1963 edition which I believe is the unabridged addition as it does not say it is an abridged edition.
I started reading a few years ago but never finished it. My parents had it for years before I acquired it from them. I dont know if my parents ever read it but they had it in their possession all the while they were JWs which was many years. I was really surprised they had it in their house all those years.